Sweatband and method of making



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Aha 1:.- Ehri -1'iana- A.B. CHRISTIANA v SWEAT BANDS AND METHOD OF MAKING .Filed Dec. 19, 19 47 Patented Aug. 30, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE j 7 2,480,356 SWEATBAND AND nnrrnon OF MAKING Abel B. Christiana, Ilion, N. Y.

Application December 19, 1947, Serial No.- 792,672

2 Claims. (01. z 1s1) This invention relates to sweatbands and associated portions of headcoverings as hats and the like and methods of associating sweatbands with adjacent portions of head coverings.

An important object of the invention is'to provide a novel sweatband, which will substantially prevent the movement of moisture, such as perspiration, by capillary attraction along the stitches, which secure a sweat band to a hat and the like, whereby the moisture will not reach the hat band and damage it or render it unsightly.

Another important object is to accomplish the desirable result just described without the use of adhesives, pads or like layers of material which would add to the wall thickness of the crown adj acent the brim.

Still another important object is to provide a novel association of sweat band and hat or the like, wherein stitches are employed to securethe sweat band to the crown but the stitches do not extend through the wall of the sweat band to the head-engaging surface thereof.

Another major object is to provide a method of associating a sweat band and hat or the like.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following detailed description of the invention, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this disclosure, and in which drawing:

Figure 1 is a vertical section through a head covering containing one of the novel sweat bands associated therewith.

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical section of the same.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary plan view of a head covering, with the novel sweat band and a hat band associated therewith.

In the drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of the invention and wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the letter A designates a head covering, with the novel sweat band B associated therewith and secured thereto by stitches C.

The head covering A is illustrated as a hat having a crown portion 5 with inner and outer faces 6 and 1 respectively, a brim portion 8 extending from the crown portion 5, and a hat band 9 extending about the portion 5 at outer face 6 of the crown adjacent the juncture of crown and brim portions.

In the example shown, the sweat band B which is preferably of a material substantially impervious to perspiration and the like, such as leather,

has a head-contacting face H] and opposite or crown-contacting face II and is, preferably, as

thick as a conventional sweat band, except that its lower edge portion may be reduced in thickness as will be described.

The sweat band B is separated in any approved way, such as split longitudinally toward but preferably short of its upper edge l2 so that a longitudinally-extending, downwardly-opening, preferably continuous, compartment or opening [3 is provided extending upwardly from the lower or open edge of the sweat band. This opening l3 which is preferably a slit has its end l4 spaced above the point where the stitches C will be made, as shown in Figure 2.

It will be noted in Figure 2 that the lip l5, which is the lip adjacent the crown 5 is shorter than the lip l6 which is the lip farthest from the crown and that this makes it possible to curl or arch the lip l6 so that it will conceal the opening or slit l3 2 band.

After separating the sweat band as described, it may be placed within the crown portion 5 with the face ll of the sweat band in contact with the face 6 of the crown portion, as in Figures 1 and 2, the walls of the opening or compartment separated by moving the outer wall ll away from the inner or crown-facing wall I8 of the sweat band, and the stitches C made through the wall l8, and as they would be made conventionally, through the crown wall. Thereupon the loose wall being the wall I! of the sweat band may be dropped into position and there will be a solid, imperforate wall section, free of protruding stitches, between the head of the wearer and the stitches C, as is clear in Figures 2 and 3.

Since the stitches C, which may be of conventional thread used in stitching sweat bands to crowns, do not extend to the face ll] of the sweat band, perspiration cannot reach them, nor be apt to travel along the stitches to the crown and hat band 9 and damage or discolor it.

Due to the fact that materials as adhesives, latex, and the like, or pads are not used, the transverse cross section of crown portion 5 and associated sweat band B is no greater than that of crown portions and associated conventional sweat bands of head coverings.

Various changes may be made to the form of the invention herein shown and described without departing from the spirit of the invention and scope of the claims.

What is claimed is:

1. In combination with a head covering having a crown portion provided with an inner face and means to connect a sweat band to the crown portion, comprising stitches, a sweat band having a face in contact with said inner face, said sweat band having a, head-contacting face, an upper edge, a lower edge, and an opening extending longitudinally of said band with its mouth at said lower edge and its end spaced from said upper edge, with said stitches extending from said crown portion to said opening above'itl'ie mouth 10f said opening, said head-contacting face being free of said stitches and said mouth having two-lips,'with the lip nearest said crown 'portion-beingshorter than the other lip, and with the longer lip extending over the edge of said shorter lip.

2. In a method of associating a sweat band with a head covering having a crown:and brim, .the steps of splitting longitudinally the lowermost portion only of said'sweat band to provide two lips; removing a longitudinally-extending:section of one lip, whereby one lip is longer thanthe oth'er REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

'UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 36,344 Fay Sept. 2, 1862 1598154 Sachs Aug. 31, 1926 1,958,804 Sherwood May 15, 1934 231553965 Brasher Apr. 25, 1939 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 679;38 Germany Aug."7, 1939 

